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Food you will not eat you do not boil.
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
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It takes a village to raise a child.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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Patience is the key which solves all problems.
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The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.
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